Oh Land Talks New Album ‘Wish Bone’ & Being A Renaissance Girl: Watch

Oh Land? Oh yes. Since she featured on Popping Up two years ago, the singer-songwriter (born Nanna Øland Fabricius) has toured with Katy Perry, gone platinum in her native Denmark, and performed on The Late Show With David Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live — but for her new album, “Wish Bone,” she teamed up with TV On The Radio producer Dave Sitek for a sound that’s just as infectious as her US debut, 2011’s Oh Land, with even more quirk and grit than the songs like “White Nights” and “Sun of a Gun” that elevated her to stardom.

That’s not to say that her pop sensibility isn’t intact — for co-writes, she turned to Evan Bogart (Beyonce‘s “Halo”) Jimmy Harry (Pink‘s “Sober”) and Sia (all your favorite songs) — and yet, it still feels distinctly Oh Land, as on lead single “Renaissance Girls.”

“One day I was sitting on the subway,” she explained, “and I saw a couple of boys just playing and drumming on their legs, and it was so spontaneous and necessary for them. I was like, wow. You can make music this way. You don’t need amps, you don’t need a stage. That’s what I wanted to have on my album. Something that’s really strong and necessary for me right now.” Indeed it does.